Refrigerator



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J. WEITZ 8v H. KLASSERT.

REPRIGBRATOR.

No. 362,690. Patented May 10, 1887.

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JACOB VEITZ AND HENRY KLASSERT, OF BUFFALO, NEIV YORK.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part; of Letters Patent No. 362,690, dated May 10, 1887.

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T all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, Jason Win'rz and HENRY KLAssERr, both citizens of the United States, residing in Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Befrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to certain improvements in the ice-chamber, whereby the bars composing said chamber are made easily removable, so that they lcan be conveniently taken out to be cleaned and as easily returned, and so that the cold air has a free passage down through the openings between the removable bars composing the icechamber floor.

Oui` invention relates, further, to the form and construction of the bars forming the icechamber floor, and other details of construction, all of which will be fully and clearly hereinafter described, shown, and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figurel is afront elevation of the refrigerator; Fig. 2, a central vertical section. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional elevation, showing an end view of the bars and a front view of the rear cast-iron plate, to which they are secured and made readily removable. Fig. 4 represents a transverse section through a portion of the refrigerator, showing a side elevation of the removable bars composing the ice-chamber floor, and a cross-section of the east-iron v supporting-plates for the bars; and Fig. 5 is a horizontal section through a portion of a refrigerator, showing the construction of the parts for holding the water-proof paper or plate between the two air-spaces.

In Fig. 1, 1 represents the ice-chamber door, and 2 and 3 the provision-chamber doors, all made in the usual Way. The upper bars, forming the ice-floor, may or may not have a covering, 5, of sheet metal. The under sides of bottom of the bar.

made in the form of troughs or gutters lined with sheet metal, 9.

At the front of the refrigerator is a plate, 10, (see Fig. 4,) made of cast-iron and secured to the front wall by means of screws, or in any Well-known way. On this plate is a series of projections, 11, cast in one piece with it, andadapted to receive the ends of the bars 4 and hold them in position and from moving sidewise, and also another series of proj ections, 12, adapted to receive the ends of the lower bars, 8. Just under the bars 4, attached to this cast-iron plate by solder or rivets, is a trough, 13, adapted to receive the dripping from the bars 4, that may from any cause come down and carry it through the hole 24 to the troughs or bars 8. At the back of the refrigerator, secured to the back wall, is another plate, 14, having projections and 16, adapted to receive and hold the opposite ends of the bars 4 and 8 and keep them. in position.

Below the bars 8 is attached to the plate 14 by rivets (or solder) a trough, 17, adapted to receive the dripping from the troughs or bars 8, from which it is conducted away to the waste-pipe 18, the bars S each being provided with holes 19 at theirlower ends to permit the Water to drop through. (See Fig. 4, where enough of one bar 8 is broken away to show one of these holes.)

It will be seen by reference to 4 that these plates 10 and 14 are so formed that the bars 8 are shorter than the bars 4. This construction permits thcm to be easily put in place or removed for cleaning or for other purposes. By this means all parts of the refrigerator may be readily removed, and thereby be got at and cleaned.

2O represents the warm air liuc, and 29 is the outlet.

In Fig. 5 we have shown how the water-prooi paper, 21, is secured in place. In the corners of the refrigerator, against the outer walls, and 3l, is placed a post or bar, 22, having a rabbet or groove. By sawing out the strip 23 the paper, 2l, is now put in position and the same strip, 23, put back in place-tlie same place it was taken from-and fastened with nails or the equivalent thereof. The paper, 21, is se- ICO cured on the other sides in the same Way, a adapted to receive the dripping from the ice, `post, 25, being fixed in the corner against the in combination with the front and back plates,

inside Wall 26 and the paper secured Aby a 10 and 14, provided with the projecting pieces strip, 27. Afterward the inside Wall 28 is se- 11, l2, 15, and 16, the troughs 13 -and 17', and v15 5 curely fastened in place. conducting-pipe 18, substantially as land for This construction saves wood, and is easily the purposes described. l

and quickly done. JACOB WEITZ.

We cla/im as our invention- HENRY KLASSERT. In a refrigerator, a series of removable bars, Vitnesses: 1o 4, forming the ice-eh21imber floor, and a series JAMES SANGSTER,

of removable metal-lined trough-bars, 8, HENRY ASHBERY. 

